Mixed Multitudes

Here’s a great resource for your next trip to Israel: the city of Jerusalem has prepared a series of tours ...

Cantillation or trope has always mesmerized me. I know of no other religion that has a similar system for chanting ...

The fast day of Tisha B’av begins tonight. Like Yom Kippur, this fast lasts a full 26 hours. Argh. I ...

On Sunday, I’ll be heading to Park City, Utah for a conference called called “Why Be Jewish?” The 2 1/2 ...

Rabbi Sherwin Wine, who founded the Secular Humanistic Judaism movement, died in a car crash this weekend. He was 79. ...

A poll shows that in Israel, 27 percent of the Jewish population observes the Shabbat according to Halacha, while 20% ...

Before there were Halliburton and Exxon-Mobil, there was United Fruit.I’ve been spending a lot of my spare time over the ...

As I was browsing articles on Harry Potter, I came across an item from last year where Daniel Radcliffe (Harry ...

The other day I blogged about my gut discomfort with the class-action lawsuit brought by children of Holocaust survivors, asking ...

A look at the extensive splits within the religious establishment in Israel, and their increasing inability to deal with challenges ...

Today’s offering of Harry Potter is a look at the new book Harry Potter and the Torah. No, it’s not ...

As Kanye West so eloquently rapped in “Never Let Me Down”, “Racism is still alive, they just be concealing it.” ...